Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Platform & Reliability

upboundext; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly role

Exposure to global open-source kubernb

Open-source project involvement

Job summary

upboundext is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate a multi-control-plane platform for provisioning and adapting cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The role spans product development, production operations, and open-source contributions, with emphasis on reliability at scale across SaaS and self-hosted deployments.

You will build Go-based operators, integrate with Kubernetes APIs, and drive incidents through to resolution while collaborating with open-source communities.

Qualifications

• Production-scale Go-based systems experience is required.
• Expertise with Kubernetes controllers and API server concerns.
• Strong debugging across distributed systems and tracing.
• Customer-facing problem solving and incident resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate multi-tenant SaaS platform across clouds.
• Build and maintain Go operators and controllers.
• Investigate distributed system issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Publish design docs and post-incident reviews.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot services with observability.
• Develop tooling for debugging customer environments.
• Support self-hosted deployment releases and customer deployments.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive incidents to resolution.
• Contribute to open-source Kubernetes framework.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

Distributed systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes API

Job description

upboundext is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate a multi-control-plane platform for provisioning and adapting cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The role spans product development, production operations, and open-source contributions, with emphasis on reliability at scale across SaaS and self-hosted deployments.

You will build Go-based operators, integrate with Kubernetes APIs, and drive incidents through to resolution while collaborating with open-source communities.